Valentine’s Day came and went with little fanfare this year, due largely to the fact that Fiona is in Vietnam, helping orphans or somesuch. That girl, honestly.
Unsurprisingly, email and other asynchronous modes of communication have a real knack for destroying the romance of the occasion (candy manufacturers’ and florists’ conspiracies aside, that is), so I might just have to tough it out and wait the four weeks until she returns. Unreasonable, I know. In the mean time I’ve had marvelous results distracting myself with very heavy drinking; this past tenday has been populated with more 21st Birthday celebrations than I care to count (four, if you must know), and I get the feeling the rest of the year will be similarly packed.
So to Dave, Gregor, Nick, and Ali: Happy 21st Birthday(s). To Fiona: Happy Valentine’s Day. Come home before I die of self–abuse.
Posted by Chris Clark on February 17, 2004 at 1:23 AM
You write a post about missing your girlfriend at what, two in the morning? And you decide to give a vague allusory nod to Tantek, Matt, and Eric in the process by titling it with whimsical reference to their XHTML Friends Network. But since you’re using Safari as your primary browser these days, and it’s two in the morning, and you just want to go to bed, you fail to run your Decaffeination script, and fail to check the post in anything but Safari, and fail to notice that your post just isn’t valid. And then… since you’re serving your pages with the application/xhtml+xml MIME type, Mozilla users everywhere find your site to be a big, broken, invalid mess; and you’ve gone to bed.
And you don’t return to your computer screen for twelve hours.
So, to the handful of humans who saw fit to email me angrily about my broken website: thank you. Of course, me being asleep meant that such things didn’t get fixed very quickly, so I must beg forgiveness.
Posted by Chris Clark on February 17, 2004 at 3:06 PM
Dear Human Resources Department,
I am interested in securing a position with your company and would greatly appreciate your assistance on this matter.
…
I have attached my resume for your review. I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you further about my background, and the ways in which I can bring value to your organization.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Imran Anwar
Dear Imran,
Your resumé is quite impressive, and your attitude matches, but there are six very good reasons why I’m not going to hire you:
- I’m not hiring any new staff right now.
- You spammed me.
- I’m a student, not a company.
- This is a weblog, not a business.
- I don’t have a human resources department.
- You spammed me.
So sue me, that’s really only five reasons. Good luck with that whole “spam your way to employment” thing, though.
Sincerely,
Chris Clark
Posted by Chris Clark on February 17, 2004 at 11:11 PM